A 1979 DPRK work. Scanned by Ismail, sent to him by Victor Carter.

December 2, 2014 note: I've been informed that pages 78-79 of the PDF didn't get uploaded for some reason (even though they were scanned.) Here they are in text format:

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Active Support of the Popular Masses for the Armed Struggle

Attaching great significance to the active support of the broad popular masses for the armed struggle at the Wangjaesan Meeting, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung stated:
"The revolutionaries and the populace at home must make all possible efforts to aid the guerrillas and the people in the guerrillas bases." (Ibid., p. 61.)
The popular masses rendered greater support to the armed struggle as the revolutionary influence of the anti-Japanese armed struggle had been expanded.
Their active support constituted an indispensable condition for the development of the anti-Japanese armed struggle and, at the same time, they themselves were quickly revolutionized in the struggle to support the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
This support found expression, first of all, in the active political and ideological support for the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
It had an inspiring effect on the morale of the guerrillas, firmed their conviction about victory, and heightened the revolutionary spirits of the people in the guerrilla zones. Furthermore, it played an important role in frustrating the crafty political offensive of the Japanese imperialist aggressors who had been making frantic efforts to destroy the armed struggle. In the course of their support, the popular masses themselves were politically and ideologically prepared for vigorous revolutionary struggle against the Japanese imperialists.
The popular masses gave their politico-ideological support for the anti-Japanese armed struggle in diverse forms and ways.
To begin with, they expressed their active support for the armed struggle through various meetings.
In order to render active support to the anti-Japanese armed struggle and strengthen solidarity with it, meetings were held among the broad sections of the people including the peasants in the northern border areas such as Hoeryong and Saebyol and the workers in such industrial centres as Chongjin, Musan, Wonsan and Hamhung.
In May 1934 a mass meeting was held in Mt. Undu in Hoeryong County, North Hamyong Province. It was attended by a large number of people who come from various parts to express their solidarity with the armed struggle. Among them were workers from the Kyerim Coal

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Mine and the Musan Mine, peasants in the areas of Hoeryong, Yuson and Chongsong and workers in the Chongjin area. The meeting was sponsored by the Association for Supporting the Anti-Japanese Revolution operating in the Yuson area. It took the form of the "Picnic of April 8" (an annual function to honour the birthday of Buddha) to evade the surveillance of the enemy. The meeting was pervaded with the reverence for and allegiance to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. The attendants were firmly resolved to fight on resolutely on the road of the Korean revolution led by him. They made a resolution to actively support the armed struggle by intensifying a campaign for aiding and joining the anti-Japanese guerrillas and wage more forcefully diverse struggles against the colonial domination of the Japanese imperialists.
They finished off a policeman from the police sub-station in Undu Sub-county when he came to obstruct the meeting.
The people's active support to and solidarity with the anti-Japanese armed struggle found their expression in various forms of strikes and demonstrations, in the written appeals and leaflets scattered by the revolutionary organizations and in the revolutionary publications.
An underground revolutionary organization in Onsong County made more than ten red flags and presented them to the guerrillas between late 1934 and early 1935.*

* Concerning it, a Japanese police document points out: "On September 28, 1932, a secret organization called the Worker-Peasant Union was organized in Wola-dong, Mipo Sub-county, Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, for Korea's independence and her communization. (This union was renamed the Peasants' Mutual-Aid Association on August 3, 1933.) Its members kept contacts with the delegates of the PPRA. They received red appeals made by the KPRA and distributed them. They also made more than ten red silk flags in which a hammer and a sickle were embroidered from December the same year (1934-Quoter) to late February 1935 and presented them to the People's Revolutionary Army on March 2 to maintain a closer contact with it. (Thought Bulletin, No. 6, Thought Department, Public Procurator's Office, High Court of Justice, March 1936, pp. 18-19.)

The popular masses also directly assisted the military activities of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army. Such assistance took diverse forms such as mass enlistment in the guerrilla army, offering informations, showing the way and ensuring secure conditions for billeting.
As a result of the expansion and growth of the revolutionary influence of the armed struggle and the vigorous politico-ideological work of the underground revolutionary organizations in various areas, a large number of youth in all parts of the country including northern

(at this point see page 80, included in the PDF)

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